Rockingham Landfill Gas Abatement Facility

Rockingham Landfill Gas Abatement Facility is a landfill gas project located at the Millar Road Landfill in Baldivis, approximately 45km south of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in August 2013 and operates over an unknown area confined to the waste management facility. The Baldivis and Rockingham area features a mix of peri-urban residential development, industrial land use, and historical market gardens.

Landfill gas projects operating under the electricity generation methodology involve capturing methane gas, which is produced by degrading legacy and non-legacy organic waste, and combusting it to generate electricity. This process prevents the potent greenhouse gas from venting into the atmosphere while simultaneously providing renewable energy to the grid.

The project's coastal region is characterized by a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Soils in the area belong to the Swan Coastal Plain and are predominantly sandy with underlying coastal limestone ridges from the Spearwood Dune System.

Over its lifetime, the project has updated its methodology several times, moving from revoked legacy waste methods to the current 2021 determination. The facility was previously managed by AGL Energy Services and Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Trust before transitioning to LMS Energy Pty Ltd, a prominent figure in the Australian bioenergy sector. The project also successfully delivered on an Emissions Reduction Fund contract (CAC203884) in February 2023, supplying nearly 480,000 carbon credits to the Commonwealth.